bawdrick is a small angular-shaped shield, 3 inches in length by 24 inches in width. The heraldic-bearing on this is similar to that emblazoned on the jupon, viz., a chevron and two oak-leaves in relief in chief. Over the upper part of the thighs, and between them, seemingly attached to the breastplate, and appearing below the jupon, is a horizontal skirt or apron of mail. Cuisses protect the thighs, and are covered with two horizontal rows of studs. The genouillères, or knee-caps, of plate are also studded. These cover the fronts and outside of the knees only, and are attached by means of straps. The front and exterior of the legs, from the knees to the insteps, are protected by jambs; the defensive armour, so called, studded in front. These are fastened to the legs by five straps. The inner portions and calves of the legs appear unprotected by defensive The sollerets which cover the feet are extremely curious. They are composed of lamina, or overlapping plates, cut Vandyke-wise. These lamina are studded, and the sollerets pointed at the toes. Attached to the ankles are rowelled spurs, and the feet rest against a lion. The legs are straight, and not crossed. Suspended by a lace or cordon from the bawdrick, on the right hip, is an anelace or dagger, 163 inches in length. On the left side, the sword, of which a small portion only remains, appears to have been fastened to the bawdrick. In raised letters along the front or south of the slab on which the effigy reposes, is verge the following inscription: + HIC IACET: GRVFYD: AP: DAVYD COCH: AGNVS: DEI: MISERE: ME. The misere abbreviated for miserere.

armour.

A notice of this effigy, very similar to the above, will be found in vol. v of the 4th Series, p. 128, but without the accompanying illustration.

M. H. B.

HISTORICAL MSS. COMMISSION.
(Continued from p. 83.)

MSS. IN THE REPOSITORY OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

1668, April 22. Herbert v. Lloyd.-Report from the Committee to whom was referred the petition of William Herbert and the answer of Sir Charles Lloyd, that the petitioner is not relievable in the Courts of Westminster Hall, and ought, therefore, to have a hearing at the bar. (L. J., xii, 228.) In extenso. See also Pet. Book, 14 April.

Annexed: 1.-17 March 1667-8. Petition of William Herbert for the reversal of a decree in Chancery pronounced against him in 1652 by Commissioners Keeble and Lisle in his suit against Thomas Bynion respecting the right of redemption of an estate in the county of Montgomery, mortgaged by petitioner's father, Richard Herbert, to William Bynion, father of Thomas Bynion. [The matter appears, by the statements in the petition, to have been in litigation since 1638.] Petitioner prays that Sir Charles Lloyd, who bought the premises for a very small consideration, and who had notice of petitioner's suit, and was afterwards desired not to proceed in the purchase, may be ordered to appear and answer.

2. Answer of Sir Charles Lloyd. Is a mere stranger to most of the matters mentioned in Herbert's petition. He is questioned for an estate of which he became a purchaser upon a valuable consideration, and prays that a convenient time may be granted him to answer. Having no habitation in London, his writings concerning the matter are in the country, one hundred and twenty miles from hence, where he and his family have resided since the late dreadful fire.

3. Plea and answer of Sir Charles Lloyd, Baronet. The lands in question were absolutely conveyed by the petitioner's father to William Bynion in fee simple, and not under any condition of redemption, trust, or mortgage whatsoever. Respondent gave full value. He positively denies that at the time of the purchase he had any notice of the petitioner's suit, Bynion at the time having been for two years in peaceable possession.

MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF REGINALD CHOLMONDELEY,
ESQ., OF CONDOVER HALL, SHROPSHIRE, RELATING
TO CHESTER AND WALES.

A deed dated 1528, August 18. Thomas [Wolsey], CardinalPriest of the title of St. Cecily, Archbishop of York, Primate of

England, and Chancellor, and Legate de Latere of the Apostolic See, to Richard Bromeley, monk of the monastery of Vale Crucis, of the [Cistercian] Order, in the diocese of St. Asaph, a priest, having professed a regular life. Absolves him from the guilt, if any, of apostacy incurred by him by the not wearing his habit, and from all ecclesiastical penalties hitherto incurred, and from all excesses (except those reserved to the Holy See) hitherto by him committed; and gives him permission, because of his weakness of body, to use linen next his skin, and long leggings (caligis) of a decent colour; also ...... under his hood during divine service, as well in the choir as in the cloister; and to talk in a low voice in the dormitory and elsewhere; and in his chamber, after...... to eat and drink moderately, and on a journey; to choose a fit confessor, secular or regular; and to hear confessions from those who should come to confess to him, and to absolve them from all excesses not reserved to the Holy See; and to be elected abbot of any monastery of the said order, or to take any other claustral dignity which he can conscientiously assume..... Dated from his house near Westminster. Oval seal of red wax, about 5 inches by 3 inches, in case. Figures of SS. Peter and Paul in niches, under a Roman pediment. Underneath is the coat of arms of Wolsey surmounted by a cardinal's hat. The legend is "Sigillum Thome Archiep. Eb[or.], Legati de latere, ad dispensationes." Portions of the inscription and coat of arms are lost. At the foot (left corner) is the name of John Hughes; and (right corner) the name of Claibun the Datary. The document states Bromeley to be son of a monk by an unmarried woman. (Latin.)

Folio, paper, seventeenth century, 240 pp. Copies of the case and arguments temp. Car. I, where the jurisdiction of the Marches Court over the four shires of Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, and Salop, was debated at length.

P. 45. A.D. 1641. Arguments proving the jurisdiction used by the President and Council in the Marches of Wales over the counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, and Salop, to be illegal and injurious, and a mere encroachment beyond their appointed limits.

P. 49, Records; p. 66, Reports, in French, of arguments in Parliament (17 Car. I); p. 74, the effect of the first argument of the King's Solicitor-General, Sir Francis Bacon, in maintaining of the Council of the Marches over the four shires; p. 82, the effect of what was spoken by Mr. Sergeant Hutton; p. 86, the reply of the King's Solicitor; p. 97, the third and last argument of the King's Solicitor in reply to Sergeant Harris.

In this volume are also the following letters and papers:

1661, March 14, Ludlow Castle. "Carbery, Lord President of the Marches, to the High Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of the county of Gloucester." He notices the bad state of the roads in that county, and calls upon them to put in force the statutes relating thereto.

1662, March 25. Draft of a declaration by the Justices of the Peace alluding to Lord Carbery's letter, and denying that the county of Gloucester was within the Marches of Wales or within the power or jurisdiction of his Lordship's commission. It has the autograph signatures of twenty-one Justices of the Peace.

Copy of a presentment by the Grand Jury to Lord ...... that processes were issued out of the Court of the Marches of Wales against some inhabitants of the county of Gloucester for matters arising within that county; and that the Lord President had sent the letter noticed above, and praying him to present the matter to the King, that redress might be had.

Form of a bill in the Court of Marches.

Small 4to, paper, 206 pp., end of seventeenth century. Fair copies of letters between Ant. Pagi and William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, on Roman consular chronology. These end on p. 123. The remainder of the volume contains letters on the same subject between Father Noris and the Bishop, with the interpolation, at pp. 145-156, of a letter by Henry Dodwell (at Cookham) to the Bishop. All the letters, except Dodwell's, are in Latin, and are dated in the years 1686 and 1687.

Small 4to, paper, seventeenth century, 123 leaves. "A Breviary, or Collections of the most anchant Cittie of Chester, reduced into these chapters following, by the Reverend Mr. Ro. Rogers, Bachelor in Divinity, Archdeacon of Chester, and one of the prebends (sic) of the Cathedral Church in Chester; written anew by his sonne, D. R., a well wisher to that anchant Cittie." The tenth (and last) chapter is headed, "Certain commendable deeds done for the wealth and estimation of the Citti of Chester by certain that have bene maiores of Chester, by some others that have bene borne there, and other good men dwellinge there."

Folio, paper, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 1. "Visitation of Cheshire, taken by William Flower, alias Norroy King of Arms, and with hym Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, his Marshall, A.D. 1580." 97 leaves. The arms are well tricked, and there are copies of deeds and their seals, which evidence the pedigrees and arms. There are some additions, supposed to be made by Wm. Smith of Old Haugh, Rouge Dragon, Pursuivantat-Arms in 1609. Leaves 74-80 are nearly blank. The leaves 90-96 have arms only, "taken out of a Book in the Office, written temp. Hen. V."